Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
| 2 | Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward . |
| 3 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 4 | I would talk and laugh with my companions but withdraw , lapsing into silence , when I was offered any food . |
| 5 | Remarkably , when she was given ungrammatical sentences to repeat , she often produced a grammatically correct version : she repeated ‘ She write she mother a letter ’ as ‘ She wrote her mother a letter ’ , and ‘ Do you want to go movies ? ’ as ‘ Do you want to go to the movies ? ’ . |
| 6 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 7 | Allison Dutton , 24 , was working late at her office in Cherbourg , France , where she had moved to live with her fiance , when she was stabbed 18 times . |
| 8 | Two-year-old Leannda was sighted when she was born 14 weeks premature . |
| 9 | The hand promptly slapped her on the neck , and she leapt into the air with shock and surprise ; but she was even more surprised when she was offered more feed . |
| 10 | One victim was glad of it when she was raped last year . |
| 11 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 12 | It was just too much for the American girl when they were faced one day with yet another torrential downpour . |
| 13 | In the late 1920s W. Embden , professor of physiology at the University of Frankfurt , found that German miners produced 20 per cent more coal when they were given 7 grams a day , decidedly a harmful dose , of sodium hydrogen phosphate . |
| 14 | This meant that even the more suspicious members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's general subject panel who took part in later studies appeared to be genuinely surprised when they were given subsequent memory tests . |
| 15 | His urethral discharge and her vaginal discharge had both cleared by two weeks , and when they were seen one month after their original visit , there was no sign of infection or inflammation . |
| 16 | In a Swedish study , patients with IBS treated with eight sessions of ‘ supportive psychotherapy which could be performed in any physician 's office ’ had fewer symptoms and psychological and physical disability compared with a control group when they were seen 3 months later . |
| 17 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 18 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |
| 19 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 20 | China denounced the plan when it was announced last October , and threatened dire consequences if Mr Patten refused to back down . |
| 21 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 22 | Problems have arisen despite this year 's cash for the NHS appearing , when it was announced last November , to allow for real growth for the first time in years , even after taking into account inevitable pressures such as the rising number of elderly people . |
| 23 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 24 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 25 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 26 | The Criminal Justice Act was hailed as a far-reaching piece of legislature when it was launched last October . |
| 27 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 28 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 29 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 30 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |